First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net. Watch by clicking below.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
There is an imminent crisis facing the 16 million children and their families who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition…
America’s children are being pushed in the wrong direction and down the wrong path. Every day, the distance between…
From Iran to Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan, children today are growing up amid the highest number of violent…
Choosing Children: A Roadmap for the 119th Congress America’s children are being pushed in the wrong direction and down…
In the last 24 hours, Congress has made clear — not once, but twice — that children are not…
Children could see more immigration actions, fewer SNAP benefits In the last 24 hours, Congress has advanced legislation that unnecessarily…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
